But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before. Votes: 16
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. Votes: 15
Zippy is living in the moment. Votes: 11
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Votes: 11
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece. Votes: 11
Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything. Votes: 11
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips. Votes: 10
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Votes: 10
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Votes: 9
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. Votes: 9
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity. Votes: 9
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong. Votes: 8
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister. Votes: 7
I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Votes: 7
My first character was Mr. Toad. Votes: 7
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. Votes: 6
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat. Votes: 6
Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. Votes: 6
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. Votes: 6
Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. Votes: 6
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist. Votes: 5
Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head. Votes: 5
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. Votes: 5
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light. Votes: 4
A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. Votes: 4
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist. Votes: 3
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. Votes: 3
I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents. Votes: 2
I just became one with my browser software. Votes: 1
Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere. Votes: 0
I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Votes: 0
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. Votes: 0
When I was an art student in the early 60â²s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist. Votes: 0